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Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Here Comes The Bride . . . .

. . . she just happens to be a dinosaur!

Sooo, my friend, Mandy, tasked me with the task of briding-up a couple of dinosaurs. I'm a little unsure on the exact details, but they are for her brother's wedding, and she is doing a reading that involves dinosaurs . . . I think.

Anyway, the idea was to give the bride a veil and the groom a bow-tie. I drew the line at making him a top hat!!!

Both were pretty simple to do really. The bow-tie is made from some black ribbon I had in my stash, making it into a bow shape and then sewing it to a piece of elastic so it could be attached to and removed easily from the dinosaur.

The veil was a little more complicated, but still not the trauma I envisaged.

I got half a metre of wide lace from my local haberdashers and cut this into smaller strips. I then glued the strips together with some fabric glue, overlapping, to make a long veil. After it had dried, I then sewed some white elastic (shirring) thread to the top and attached to the dinosaur.

About Me

Hello, my name is Holly and I live in Yorkshire, UK, where it generally rains and does not much else, but that gives me plenty of time to sit indoors and craft. I have been making cards for about a year now and I soon moved onto sewing and trying other crafts too.

It started as something to keep me occupied while the hubby (or fiance as he was at the time) watched football (soccer to anyone in the US) and it became a bit of an obsession, so much so that my spare room is now my sewing studio and I no longer have to sit at the kitchen table.

My other hobbies include tap dancing, following MotoGP and reading. I am also studying with the Open University for my history degree and am in my final year.

I sometimes wonder how I find time to do all this, and see my friends, as by day I work for a solicitors' firm in Leeds.

You can contact me using the contact form below or at fairy[dash]elephants[at]